Background

Dennis R. Ciarlante, Ph.D was Vice President of Global Crop Protection and Ag Biotech Research for American Cyanamid. During his tenure as Vice President, Dr. Ciarlante advanced three crop protection projects to development stage for commercialization and advanced two projects to pre-development stage. From 1996 to February 1999, Dr. Ciarlante served as an Assistant Vice President of global herbicides, crop engineering and field and greenhouse research where he advanced ... three chemical class projects to pre-development stage. He has strategic oversight responsibility for business, development and research activities in the corporation including laboratory, greenhouse and field research programs. Dr. Ciarlante has worked in the agricultural biotech and agrochemical industry for 25 years, the majority of which was spent at American Cyanamid, and has substantial experience in all phases of product research and development from concept to finished commercial product. After the acquisition of American Cyanamid by BASF, Dr. Ciarlante was as Co-Leader of the agricultural biotech integration team and head of Princeton agricultural biotech where he was accountable for all research and development activities at the Princeton site after the acquisition. He held a variety of research management positions at American Cyanamid from 1976 to 1996 in which he was responsible for all development activities engaged in process, formulations, analytical, residue and metabolism chemistry from 1994 to 1996; research activities engaged in fungicide and insecticide biological discovery as well as the bioinsecticide program from 1988 to 1994 advancement of new leads to full-scale development as well as assessment of external leads and businesses from 1985 to 1988 and management of the biological research team responsible for discovering new herbicides thereby discovering and advancing several imidazolinone herbicides to commercial development from 1976 to 1983. Dr. Ciarlante serves as Member of SAB & Business Advisory Board of Cropsolution, Inc. He is an author on 16 scientific publications. Dr. Ciarlante received a B.S. in Biology in 1970 from the University of Scranton and a Ph.D. in plant physiology from Purdue University in 1975.

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